Defense Dynamics: Navigating the Post-Election Landscape for the National Security Sector
Ask a CFIUS Expert: Is Crypto Spying on Us?
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4 Key Takeaways | Solar Industry & Chinese Tariff Update
10 Key Trade Developments: Trade Remedy Cases
Episode 309 -- Alex Cotoia on Compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
10 Key Trade Developments: China
Noteworthy Points in the Rules for the Implementation of China's Patent Law 2023
JONES DAY TALKS®: Corporate Compliance in Asia: Managing Rapid Regulatory Change and Ambiguity
Hot Topics in International Trade. Braumiller Law Group Partner & Founder Adrienne Braumiller joins Vp of Marketing Bob Brewer for an Update on Forced Labor
Episode 292 -- 3M's $6.5 Million FCPA Settlement with the SEC
5 Key Takeaways | How to Effectively Leverage the Chinese Patent System
Third Party Observation in Patent Prosecution in China
The Grace Period for Novelty in Chinese Patent Law
One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program with Boards – Day 14 - Boards and Doing Business in China
Episode 276 -- Review of Phillips and Franks Int'l SEC FCPA Settlements
Sanction and the Increasing Complexity of Trade Compliance
Braumiller Law Group Help With China Imports
Coming Conflict with China: Part 5 - Good Compliance Is Good Business
JONES DAY PRESENTS®: Taiwan's Enhanced Trade Secret Restrictions and Stricter Penalties
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Hogan Lovells advises longstanding client, the world's largest steelmaker, China Baowu Steel Group (Baowu) on its investment in the Simandou mining and infrastructure project in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. Simandou...more
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Holland & Knight invites you to read our China Practice Newsletter, in which our authors discuss pertinent Sino-American topics. ...more
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In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more
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The fifth and final installment of a series of alerts focusing on practical issues relating to China’s new Foreign Investment Law. Foreign investors seeking to exit from their existing foreign invested enterprises (FIEs)...more
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In today’s blog post, I want to look at some of the more unusual bribery schemes from Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions in 2019. Some of these schemes were not unusual but they were accomplished with...more
The National People’s Congress of China (NPC) adopted the new Foreign Investment Law (FIL) on March 15, 2019, with a view toward unifying and streamlining the foreign investment framework into China. One of the main emphases...more
The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce jointly released the new Special Administrative Measures (Negative List) for the Access of Foreign Investment (2019) in China (the “2019 Negative...more
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